JAY "TONTO" SILVERHEELS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 21993
Price: $700.00
JAY SILVERHEELS
Signed 8x10 photo, shown as Tonto with pistol drawn
Photograph signed: "Jay Silverheels". B/w, 8x10. Actor Jay
Silverheels (1912-1980), born on the Six Nations Reservation in Ontario,
Canada to a Mohawk chief, is best known for playing Tonto, the Lone Ranger's
faithful Indian companion, on one of television's most popular westerns
(1949-1957). A former star athlete, Silverheels went to Hollywood as a stuntman
in 1938, usually playing stereotypical roles as an Indian in a number of feature
films before first teaming up with Clayton Moore in 1949 in the feature
film, The Cowboy and the Indians. Later that year, he was cast as Moore's
sidekick in the TV series, and he would appear as Tonto in two feature
films: The Lone Ranger (1955) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost
City of Gold (1958). Following the series, Silverheels appeared in several
feature films, including Alias Jesse James (1959), True Grit
(1969) and The Man Who Love Cat Dancing (1973), and he made numerous
appearances on the small screen, appearing primarily in Westerns, but also guest
starring on such series as Love, American Style (1972) and Cannon
(1973). Silverheels' health began to fail in the late 1970s, and he died of a
stroke in 1980. Mid-vertical fold (barely evident head-on). File nicks at blank
right edge. Overall, fine condition.
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